JD Vance called for “righteous anger.” Nigel Farage demanded “pure, cold rage.” Elon Musk reiterated what he said to anti-migrant marchers last year: “you either fight back or you die.” They seem to have got what they wanted in Belfast yesterday. Masked men pulled migrants and non-white residents onto the street and set their homes […]
The US is seven times wealthier than Britain by GDP, but it spends 115 times more on elections. Their deluge is coming our way. Having lived in the States and written about American politics for years, the amount of money involved in British donation scandals can sometimes feel surprisingly small. The hard reality for us […]
Reform UK claims to speak up for downtrodden workers. Apparently that includes mega-rich crypto billionaires. Westminster is ripe with scandals these days, but The Guardian just uncovered a whopper. Cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne reportedly gave Farage an undisclosed £5m personal gift just before he announced he’d run for his seat in Clacton in 2024. That tax-free gift […]
Peter Thiel’s company now admits they want to govern for us. Will we let them? Peter Thiel’s Palantir drew a lot of attention last weekend for a tweet that reads like the monologue of a cartoon villain. In a long post, they endorse the arguments made in The Technological Republic, a 2025 book written by the company’s […]
As politicians put on a patriotic pantomime, a whole generation feels alienated from a country that no longer seems to work for them. St George’s day (April 23) generally marks the start of a peculiar season in British politics. Debates over English identity and patriotism are re-ignited and rehashed anew. Politicians play tug-of-war with a […]
Easily missed in the sea of political chaos that is Westminster today, there is a diamond in the rough: Britain actually has positive elections legislation on the docket in Parliament. Imagine that. I’ll tell you what I like about the Representation of the People Bill (RPB, formerly referred to as the Elections Bill) – and why, given […]
It’s no secret that the political right in Britain largely takes its cues from Donald Trump. They regurgitate MAGA’s culture-war talking points, recycle the same influencers and Roman-statue ‘X’ accounts, and – in Reform UK’s case – directly import disastrous schemes like Elon Musk’s DOGE. Trump says jump; they ask how high. So it’s not […]
Who is Christopher Harborne? Very little is publicly known about the reclusive, Thailand-based technology investor – except that he is now one of the biggest political donors in British history. His record £9m donation to Reform UK this September is only the latest in a long trail of donations to right-wing populists. Harborne previously poured more […]